privacy

UprisingVoltage, 1 year ago in Do you think DuckDuckGo is a good choice for people who are concerned about their privacy?

Honestly yeah. There’s been some controversies in the past, but for someone who’s looking for a zero-effort way to browse privately and support the privacy scene (DDG donates a lot of money) it’s a great choice. Wouldn’t recommend their browser/extensions though

citytree, 1 year ago in Privacy Search Engines

Why is Ecosia on the list?

Quoting from tosdr.org:

• This service can view your browser history
• This service may collect, use, and share location data
• This service allows tracking via third-party cookies for purposes including targeted advertising
• This service tracks which web page referred you to it
• Your personal data is given to third parties

Doesn’t look privacy-respecting.

Lynda, 2 years ago in Thoughts on Simplex Chat? Is It Secure? Is it the new signal?

Having unique one-time (non-reusable) invite ID is great.

The wat SimpleX uses one-way queues, and then distributes those queues among servers offers a way to mitigate communication correlation (if the servers are independent and won’t collude). Or you can just self host and not worry. Self hosting an onion service is easy.

Running SimpleX through a tor proxy (or VPN) offers even more advantages (if you think you need them).

Perhaps the only downside is SimpleX still controls who gets to be a public server (anyone can self host or offer servers, but they won’t be integrated). I have no way of knowing if the servers are owned by a single entity. This part is not “open”.